American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Porn Is Not a Blessing of Liberty
Last week, four Republican congressmen sent a missive to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. This one-page letter…
America As a Catholic Country
As a student in the fourth grade of Saint Thomas Aquinas School in East Lansing, Michigan, I…
An Anthem for Postliberals
At my home church in Birmingham, Alabama, and in churches I visit across the country, I often…
Can Nationalism Unite Us?
The Case for Nationalism: How it Made Us Powerful, United, and Free by rich lowry broadside books,…
A Last Chance for Australian Justice
My late parents loved Cardinal George Pell, whom they knew for decades. So I found it a…
Algorithm Religion
It’s 2032 and you’re heading into town in your self-driving car. You are alone, asleep in the…
Peace In a Plastic World
Western secular culture “is a kind of hothouse growth,” Christopher Dawson wrote—an artificial culture that shelters us…
China’s Sovereignty Tripwire in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a British city that happens to have an ethnic Chinese majority. It never wanted…
Loyal to Death
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Historyby richard j. evansoxford, 800 pages, $39.95 Walter Scott once observed that…
Ordinary Time
The tang of juniper, the dew-wet grassThat grabs your ankles, apples for the taking.The haze between the…
An Icon of St. Margaret
This gold and paint on board, the fillet in her hair—I see resemblance, yes, a slantways glimpse…
Against the Open Society
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West by r. r. reno…
They Have the Jobs
How will you improve diversity at our school?” That’s a question often asked in faculty job interviews…
Mid-Century Manhood
No man celebrating his eighty-sixth birthday can avoid thinking about whether he has measured up to the…
Is China a Model of the Common Good?
In 2018, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said in an…
